Author: News Desk

Many of Tuesday’s front pages focus on the expansion of the vaccine rollout, with booster jabs set to be offered to the over-50s and 12-year-olds being offered a first dose within days.

The Metro says the decision to offer the vaccine to more children will make 3.2 million more youngsters eligible for the jab.

The move to begin offering vaccines to 12 to 15-year-olds next week is the focus for the i, which will stop school closures.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson will confirm on Tuesday the start of booster jabs for over-50s.

Sky News says the government has accepted the recommendation from the UK’s chief medical officers that children aged 12 to 15 should be offered a first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech.

BBC says a UK-wide programme of booster jabs to help prevent Covid will be confirmed later. Ministers are expected to announce jabs for the over-50s as part of their Covid winter plan.

The Guardian says Charlotte Johnson Wahl, the mother of the PM, has died at the age of 79. The portrait painter passed away “suddenly and peacefully” at a London hospital on Monday.

France24 says tropical Storm Nicholas strengthened to hurricane status just as it is about to slam the US Gulf coast, with Houston in its path, the National Hurricane Center said.

Aljazeera says a US.-based lawyer for Prince Andrew forcefully rejected claims in a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused the prince of sexually assaulting her when she was 17.

Arab News says Australian authorities extended a coronavirus lockdown of the capital Canberra to mid-October, saying the measure was necessary while vaccinations are ramped up.